Showing posts with label Oak National. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oak National. Show all posts

Friday, 19 June 2026

GIS CPD from the GA's Welsh Special Interest Group

This event is presented by Alistair Hamill and Brendan Conway.

Alistair and Brendan will explore three pioneering approaches which will make a significant difference to the full integration of GIS in schools:
- The first knowledge-rich statutory curriculum approach to GIS: Curriculum references to GIS can be high in aspiration but low in detail. How can we scaffold application to bring real impact to such aspiration?
- The first GIS integration within a fully-sequenced curriculum plan and lessons by Oak National Academy.
- The first GIS app for schools created with the help of agentic AI.

Book tickets here. 


Wednesday, 6 August 2025

Oak KS3 Curriculum - coming soon

I've just completed my last contribution to the Oak National Geography Curriculum project for KS3. I helped to work on the Primary Geography curriculum which is already available on the Oak website free of charge to use it as you see fit.


The Curriculum Plan can be downloaded from here.

14 units are already available, and the rest will be available for the upcoming Autumn Term.

Oak National - geography curriculum complete

I've been involved with this project for several years and it's finally at an end with the final bits of the curriculum to be uploaded ready for September. I wrote a bit, and reviewed quite a lot of both the primary and the KS3 along with a whole team of people.


You can find the Primary resources here.

Margaret Mackintosh RIP

Updated post. Sad news at the end of last week from colleagues who have organised the Charney Conference over the years of the passing of Ma...